"As trends shift, the ability to apply real-time and even predictive insights is a huge advantage. Leveraging this information to predict the next big thing can differentiate the winners from the losers in the retail industry. And technology can help."

"In a soon-to-open Arkansas factory, 21 production lines manned by the Sewbot will be capable of making 1.2 million T-shirts a year–and the ripple effects will soon be felt in garment factories in the developing world."

"For its first major public effort, SohoMuse is partnering with fashion designer Malan Breton during New York Fashion Week to livestream his runway show. Viewers will be able to purchase looks in real time directly through the networking website. Blockchain company Tokenly powers the see-now-buy-now infrastructure, and all viewers will receive a token that gives them access to products as well as future information on collections."

"Revealing the limitations of your business is an unusual move for any chief executive, particularly one who is hoping to take his company public in the near future. But José Neves, the boss and founder of luxury goods website Farfetch, is passionate about why the world of internet retailing can never fully recreate the “magic” of bricks-and-mortar shops."

"Blockchain could be used to make every SKU produced by every brand accessible to any retailer, editor or consumer, feeding new digital tools that would massively democratise the curation of fashion, argues Charles Beckwith."